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CVE-2000-0476

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2000-06-01 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

xterm, Eterm, and rxvt allow an attacker to cause a denial of service by embedding certain escape characters which force the window to be resized.

Affected products

• Michael Jennings Eterm: 0.8.10
• PuTTY: 0.48
• Rxvt: 2.6.1
• Xfree86 Project X11R6: 3.3.3, 4.0

References

• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-05/0409.html
• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-05/0420.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/06/09/1
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/06/09/2
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1298
• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-05/0409.html
• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-05/0420.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/06/09/1
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/06/09/2
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1298

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